From Dusk Till Dawn
Hey, Do You Remember...?
Christopher Schrader
4.8 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2016
⏱️ 137 minutes
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Summary
Much has been made about the sudden left turn From Dusk Till Dawn takes at the halfway point, but back in 1996 the marketing was definitively selling us a vampire movie. So for many of us, the only surprise was how long it took for the bloodsuckers to show up. Fortunately, the movie has a lot more going for it than that twist.
It was particularly interesting to discover how we felt about the first half and second half now, what those reactions meant for the sum total of our viewing experience, and how many indicators there were for the different paths Tarantino and Rodriguez would take after this.
Topics include: how familiar we were with these filmmakers before we saw this movie, how our feelings about them have changed in the last two decades, Chris' theory about the days Tarantino was on set, the best piece of diegetic music we've heard since Masters of the Universe, the pros and cons of this risky story structure, the creature effects that still work, the ones that leave us with more questions, and much much more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, do you remember from dusk till dawn? |
| 0:06.7 | Hello and welcome to Hey, do you remember to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up. |
| 0:31.8 | I'm Chris. |
| 0:32.5 | And I'm Carlos. |
| 0:33.6 | And today we're revisiting from dusk till dawn. |
| 0:53.3 | Music And today we're revisiting from dusk till dawn. If you were a film buff in the mid-90s, there weren't many prospects more exciting than the idea of Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez teaming up for a movie about bank robbers on the run from the law. |
| 1:04.2 | But long before they were involved, from dusk till dawn, was the brainchild of makeup effects legend Robert Kurtzman. |
| 1:10.2 | And we're not talking about some |
| 1:11.6 | cursory bare bones premise with only a tenuous connection to the finished product. Kurtzman had |
| 1:16.5 | written a 25-page treatment outlining every major story beat and character. And since he had |
| 1:21.8 | originally hoped to direct the film himself, he even shot a short teaser trailer starring |
| 1:25.9 | Day of the Dead's Joseph Polato to help |
| 1:28.2 | generate interest in the project, a trailer that actually contains numerous shots that were |
| 1:32.8 | directly copied in the finished film. After providing some prosthetic effects for reservoir dogs, |
| 1:38.4 | Kurtzman asked if Tarantino might return the favor by taking his treatment and fleshing it out |
| 1:42.8 | into a full-length script. |
| 1:47.9 | Tarantino agreed, and although Kurtzman remained heavily involved, |
| 1:53.1 | directorial duties eventually fell to Rodriguez and from dusk till dawn completed its evolution into the film we know it as today. In addition to the talent behind the camera, the film was also |
| 1:58.4 | noteworthy for giving George Clooney his first major starring role. |
| 2:01.9 | And for audiences who at that point knew him best as the heroic and charming Dr. Ross on ER, |
| 2:07.4 | this was a pretty shocking departure. |
| 2:10.3 | Even now, the film probably works best if you're not familiar with the extreme turn it takes halfway through. |
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